animals - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2006 - 55 Euro Cent

These brands are the first Austrian self-adhesive labels on a roll of 100 pieces. The European pond turtle is the only turtle species that occurs naturally in Austria and therefore strictly protected. She loves natural river systems with muddy bottom and alluvial forests with dense vegetation and sufficient dead wood for sunbathing. A large population currently lives in the Danube - Auen National Park. Konrad Lorenz, the great Austrian behavioral scientist, once said: "The desire to keep an animal springs from an ancient basic motive - namely, the longing of the cultural man for the lost paradise." With the new self-adhesive stamps, the Austrian Post AG succeeds to make selected species of animals, as it were, ambassadors between the paradise of nature and the world in which we live today.